Philip Armstrong

Philip Armstrong teaches writing and literature at the University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha. His poetry collection Sinking Lessons won the Kathleen Grattan Award in 2019, and was published by Otago University Press in 2020. His poems and short stories have appeared in Landfall, Sport, takahē, Poetry NZ Yearbook, and various overseas journals and anthologies. Although Philip is too frightened of social media to use it, samples of his work can be found online at www.philiparmstrong.org.